• Question: How does your work affect the average family in their day to day life and if you were to achieve what wanted in your fields how would it make it easier for people?

    Asked by roryborialus to Andrew, Dona, Liena, Sandra, Stevie on 10 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Matt, Kemran&Raoul, not a noob.
    • Photo: Steven Wray

      Steven Wray answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Right now my work doesn’t affect the average family very much.

      But if the idea of nuclear fusion power plants becomes a reality then it should make it easier for people to have clean electricity production. Reducing world-wide air pollution and providing a method of generating electricity for thousands if not millions of years! (There’s a lot of fusion fuel out there.)

    • Photo: Liena Vilde

      Liena Vilde answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      I work for the System Operator side of National Grid and my job is to make sure that in the next 20 years when a lot of fossil fuel generation is replaced by renewables the electricity system operates at least as good as it does today and everyone still gets their electricity whenever they need it!

    • Photo: Andrew Allan

      Andrew Allan answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Like Liena, my work helps provide secure electricity to every home in the UK during the energy transition. We need to keep a number of fossil fuel power stations to manage the days when there is less or no wind – and my company helps provides that system security with our coal and gas power stations.

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